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A while ago, my dad lent me a book called I’m Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers. It’s a memoir by Tim Madigan, an award winning journalist who was sent by his newspaper to interview Fred Rogers, the host of the legendary children’s television show Mr. Rogers. What Tim Madigan found was that Fred Rogers was in real life the kind, gentle, loving man who children saw on TV. But more than that, Tim found an unexpected friendship with Fred that lasted until Fred’s death in 2005. …

October turns many people’s minds to Halloween, scary stories, psychopaths in masks, demons and ghosts that torment mortals, vampires, and werewolves that feast on human prey. But there are some books that manage to be “haunting” or unsettling without having much to do with the traditional monster stories we think of each October. They aren’t meant to instill the kind of fright that makes you terrified to walk from your bed to the bathroom at 3 a.m., but they definitely deal with ghosts, or something else that haunts you after the pages are closed and you’ve moved on to making dinner or visiting a friend. And this month, I am going to read some of these “haunting” works. …

A couple months ago, Avery and a few of our book-nerdy friends roped me into doing a book group with them. Ian and Seth had already read Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson for a class they took a while back, but they wanted to go through it again with us. It’s not a book I would have readily picked up on my own, but I’m grateful our little book group got me out of my comfort zone. …

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